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Hyperstack vs Modal

What each costs, whether there's a free plan, and what each is best for, from prices checked on their own sites.

Hyperstack and Modal at a glance
Fact	Hyperstack	Modal
From	$1.35/hr	$1.10/hr
Free plan	No · No	Yes · $30/month of free credits on the Starter plan
Best for	GPU cloud offering NVIDIA data-centre GPUs on demand and reserved.	Serverless GPUs for Python: pay per second while your code runs.
Checked	Oct 17, 2026	Oct 17, 2026
Website	Visit	Visit

The difference in short

Hyperstack plans and prices
Plan	Price	Specs / includes	Notes
H200 141GB SXM	$3.99/hr	H200 SXM · 22 vCPU · 225 GB RAM	Per GPU. vCPU and RAM are the page's 'Max pCPUs per GPU' and 'Max RAM per GPU' limits. Reservation from $2.79/hr.
H100 80GB SXM	$3.20/hr	H100 SXM · 24 vCPU · 240 GB RAM	Per GPU, max vCPU/RAM per GPU. Reservation from $2.72/hr. H100 NVLink 80GB is $2.60/hr on-demand (31 vCPU, 180 GB).
H100 80GB (PCIe)	$2.50/hr	H100 PCIe · 28 vCPU · 180 GB RAM	Pricing table row is labelled only 'NVIDIA H100'; Hyperstack's product list and spot table call it H100 PCIe, so PCIe is inferred. Max vCPU/RAM per GPU. Reservation from $1.75/hr.
A100 80GB (PCIe)	$1.35/hr	A100 PCIe · 28 vCPU · 120 GB RAM	Row labelled 'NVIDIA A100' (80GB); PCIe inferred from the NVLink and SXM variants being listed separately (A100 NVLink $1.40, A100 SXM $1.60). Reservation from $0.95/hr.
B200 192GB	$6/hr	31 vCPU · 256 GB RAM	Per GPU, max vCPU/RAM per GPU. Reservation from $5.10/hr. B300 288GB is $7.40/hr on-demand.
H100 PCIe Spot VM	$2/hr	80 GB VRAM	Spot VM price from the Spot table; interruptible. Other spot rates: RTX Pro 6000 SE $1.48, A100 $1.08, L40 $0.80, A6000 $0.40.

Modal plans and prices
Plan	Price	Specs / includes	Notes
B200	$6.25/hr	—	Published only per second: $0.001736/sec. Hourly = x3600, exact arithmetic. GPU price only; CPU and memory billed separately. VRAM not stated on the pricing page.
H200 SXM	$4.54/hr	—	Published $0.001261/sec; hourly = x3600 exactly. GPU only. VRAM not stated on the pricing page.
H100 SXM5	$3.95/hr	—	Published $0.001097/sec; hourly = x3600 exactly. GPU only. H100 is 80GB, but the pricing page does not state VRAM.
A100 80GB	$2.50/hr	—	Published $0.000694/sec; hourly = x3600 exactly. A100 40GB is $0.000583/sec = $2.0988/hr.
L40S	$1.95/hr	—	Published $0.000542/sec; hourly = x3600 exactly. L40S is 48GB, but the pricing page does not state VRAM.
A10	$1.10/hr	—	Published $0.000306/sec; hourly = x3600 exactly. Also listed: L4 $0.000222/sec ($0.7992/hr), T4 $0.000164/sec ($0.5904/hr), RTX PRO 6000 $0.000842/sec ($3.0312/hr), B300 $0.001972/sec ($7.0992/hr).

Cheapest first where the prices compare.

Which is cheaper, Hyperstack or Modal?

Modal costs less to start: $1.10/hr against $1.35/hr for Hyperstack. Prices checked Oct 17, 2026 on each company's own site.

Do Hyperstack and Modal have a free plan?

Hyperstack: No, we found no free plan or trial for Hyperstack. Modal: Yes. $30/month of free credits on the Starter plan.

What else should I compare with Hyperstack and Modal?

Other GPU cloud options we've checked: RunPod ($0.34/hr), TensorDock ($0.35/hr), Vast.ai ($0.49/hr), DigitalOcean GPU Droplets ($0.76/hr).

Built from the prices and facts we checked on each company's own site. We haven't tested either hands-on.How we work